Chapter 126 Zhao Xiaoya Asks for Help 126
Li Dashi certainly knew how he survived. He survived by eating at hundreds of homes and doing work for hundreds of families.

But he was still a child at the time, and the two adobe houses in his family were sold to someone else by his mother, who remarried with the money from the sale of the houses and land.

It's the villagers in the village. You give him a little today, and he gives him some tomorrow. In winter, he lets them huddle at the foot of the kang, and he survives day by day.

"The people of your Li Village were bullied by the people of Zhang Village. Can't you seek justice?"

Zhao Xiaoya really wanted to wake up this stupid guy. Even a teenage girl like her understood this truth, so why couldn’t Li Dashi understand it?
Li Dashi hesitated, "But I have caused a lot of trouble to the villagers, and I haven't been able to repay them for all these years..."

Li Dashi felt guilty. Everyone had a hard life, but they were able to save money on their food to raise him. However, he did not repay this kindness at all.

"You didn't eat their food for free back then. Didn't you also help them with their work? And look at us, we can barely survive. How can we repay them?

The purpose of the clan's existence is to support and help each other. If you don't say anything, they will naturally not interfere."

Zhao Xiaoya also thought of her own clan. No one in the clan wanted to abandon anyone on the way to escape famine, but her parents were still there, and others might not mind but would just say a few words and not do anything.

Her abandonment must have been premeditated. I remember that her parents were always the last to come along during those days. I wonder what excuses they made to get away with it?
"But you are a descendant of the Li family, and your mother-in-law has remarried. Even if you want to support her, you can't support your stepfather and brothers."

Zhao Xiaoya was really scared. She was able to escape this time, but what about next time?

Seeing that Li Dashi was still hesitating, Zhao Xiaoya gritted her teeth and said, "I know your mother is very important to you, and I also know that if we don't support your mother-in-law, it would be unfilial of us, but I always feel that my mother-in-law seems to have great malice towards me. If Sister Yun and the others hadn't come here, my child and I would have died."

Li Dashi clenched his fists and said, "I'll go find the clan leader."

Zhao Xiaoya let go of his hand. It was not easy to persuade this piece of wood. She quickly said, "When you go to the tribe, remember to ask the elders for their opinions first. After all, we are still young and we still need the elders' opinions on many things."

Zhao Xiaoya quickly returned to her room after she finished speaking, gritted her teeth and filled a small bag of rice. "Didn't you say a few days ago that the clan leader's great-grandson was born? Send this over."

"But you and the child..." Li Dashi was a little reluctant. He had never seen such white rice in the town, and he was just giving it away like this...

"My child and I still have some left," Zhao Xiaoya gently pushed Li Dashi out, "As long as the clan leader is willing to intervene, the Zhang family won't dare to go too far in the future."

Watching Li Dashi going down the mountain, Zhao Xiaoya breathed a sigh of relief. As long as she was willing to take this step and with the help of the people from Lijia Village, her life would definitely get better and better.

Looking at the road down the mountain again, I wondered when Sister Yun and the others would come back.

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Because of Zhao Xiaoya's half bag of rice, Patriarch Li immediately called a dozen young men and went directly to find the head of the Zhang family.

"Your family is no good," Patriarch Li said loudly in the threshing ground as soon as he entered the village without visiting anyone.

The people of Zhangjia Village were not happy when they heard this. What do you, the Li family, want to do? Are you coming to provoke us?
"Patriarch Li, what does this mean?" Patriarch Zhang looked unhappy. He had to give a reason for coming to your house. "The widow of our Lijia Village remarried here, took away all her money, sold her house and land, and abandoned her young children for us to raise," Patriarch Li looked around the threshing ground, and finally focused his eyes on Old Man Zhang. The people of Zhangjia Village also thought of this.

Didn't Old Man Zhang marry a widow from Lijia Village? When Widow Li came into the family, she brought four acres of good land. But that happened many years ago, and her son is about to get married. Why is he bringing up this matter again?
"It's been so many years since this happened. Didn't the head of the village approve it back then? Don't you think your village still allows widows to remarry?"

Patriarch Zhang didn't understand what had happened for so long, what else was there to say? He was a little biased back then, because he was a member of the Zhang family, so it was inevitable that he would be biased.

"What happened back then? Everyone knows it well," If it weren't for the Zhang family being there, the widow wouldn't have been able to take a single penny away.

They swallowed this humiliation back then, and now that the village head is no longer around, it's time for them to get back at him.

"It's okay for a widow to remarry, but she hasn't even passed the 37th month yet and she's already found a new partner. Who knows if she's hooked up with him before?"

"There is no way to verify these, so let's not worry about it." Seeing the Zhang family's anxiety, Chief Li raised his lips slightly, "But whose widow remarried and emptied out all the assets of her husband's family, leaving behind only a young child?
Li Tudou (Li Dashi's father) has a son, so the family property should belong to Li Dashi. Why can a widow take it away?"

Old Man Zhang grabbed Zhang Datou who was about to rush forward and whispered to him, "Be quiet. This is not the time for you to step forward."

It's been so many years since the incident happened, and it's not easy to get things back.

"Brother Li, let's not talk about the past." Speaking of this, Patriarch Zhang knew that he was in the wrong, but he was not the patriarch at that time. Even if he disagreed in his heart, he had no right to speak at that time.

Chief Li laughed and said, "If you don't want to mention it, then don't mention it, but within this area of ​​100 miles, everyone knows about the evil deeds that your Zhangjia Village has done.

Your village has set a precedent. If I remember correctly, there are still several widows in your village. I wonder if they can also sell their houses and land and remarry?

It's our village's fault that we haven't properly publicized this matter for you all these years. I'll go and talk to you about it when we go to market. These widows in your village are all good things. If you marry them, you'll have houses and land."

The widow from Zhangjia Village's eyes lit up. If this was true, who would be willing to be a widow?

Chief Zhang was groaning in his heart, the things that happened many years ago had been suppressed, and if this were to come up again, there would be no other chief of the Zhang clan to support them.

He glared at Old Man Zhang hatefully, thinking that he had been living off his wife all his life and didn't know about the rumors goings on over the years.

"Brother Li, just tell me straight, what are you doing here this time?"

"What else can I do? The children in our Lijia Village are almost being bullied to death by you.

The family fortune was wiped out. After growing up with great difficulty by eating at many other people's homes, the remarried woman came to ask for support, and her appetite was bigger each time. She delayed our good boy's development for many years.

He finally got married and was about to become a father, but you Zhang family came to his house to evacuate the house and even wanted to kill his wife and children. Is this what a human being would do?"

As soon as Patriarch Li finished speaking, the Li family members who followed him glared at Old Man Zhang and his son.